Smart Access has a new home

Clint Covington — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:16:34 GMT

Today’s guest writer is Garry Robinson, Access MVP and proud new owner of past Smart Access journals. I asked him to tell the community about the new home for Smart Access.

Hello Clint and Microsoft Access lovers,

I am happy to announce that my company has purchased the exclusive rights to Smart Access. A great magazine that was put together by over a 100 Access professionals for more than 10 years. Purchasing all these articles (300+) realizes an ambition that I have had for years to rapidly grow our web site and knowledge based products.

So once I purchased the materials, my first goal was to rebuild the pdf's of the magazines and the downloads into collections so that people could refer to the materials on their own computers. That task is now completed and all this content is now available digitally at the following location. If you are interested in purchasing the products, use this special Access blog coupon code AB-45K2D46T6J till the end of July for a discount.

http://www.vb123.com/smart/

For those of you who are interested in what we do going forward with the Smart Access content, join my newsletter or twitter posts at http://www.vb123.com/news We hope to start posting material from the magazines in a well structured site from mid-August.

Access lives on and on…

Garry Robinson

Microsoft Office Access MVP 2006-2009

New Access training courses on Office Online

cdowns — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:52:47 GMT

Access Training writer Colin Wilcox has just finished up a series of query courses, available for free on the Access 2007 training courses page on Office Online. Here’s the whole set:

Find answers with queries

*Course*	*What you'll learn*
Queries I: Get started with queries	An overview of what queries are, what goes into them, and how to use them.
Queries II: Create basic select queries	How to create basic select queries by using a wizard or a designer.
Queries III: Use expressions and other criteria	How to use selection criteria and expressions — formulas that do more than math — in your queries.
Queries IV: Use functions and calculated fields in your queries	How to use functions to sum, average, or count data, and how to create calculated fields that display the results of an expression.
Queries V: Use "And", "Or", and "In" to set multiple conditions	How to use AND, OR, and IN logic to find records that meet multiple conditions, such as customers who also own their businesses.
Queries VI: Use wildcards in queries and parameters	How to use wildcard characters to find data and match patterns of characters.
Queries VII: Query multiple sources for data	How to query more than one table (or query) for data.
Queries VIII: Dealing with ambiguous joins	How to work around ambiguous outer joins, a problem that sometimes arises when you query multiple tables.

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Smart Access has a new home

New Access training courses on Office Online

Find answers with queries

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